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Charlie Parker session details

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February 24, 1952 (2 items; TT = 5:27)
Dumont TV Studio, New York NY
Dumont Network TV broadcast (B)
Show chatter

Charlie Parker (as); J.B. "Dizzy" Gillespie (tpt); Dick Hyman (p); Sandy Block (b); Charlie Smith (d); Earl Wilson (ann); Leonard Feather (ann)

1 Announcement (Earl Wilson and Leonard Feather) 1:55
2 Hot House (T. Dameron) 3:32


1 Announcement (Earl Wilson and Leonard Feather)
12" LP: Bird Box 01-22 LP 15, Phoenix LP 12
CD: New Sound Planet JUTB 3012, Sound Hills SSCD 8028, Philology Volume 9 (W 120), Philology Volume 21 (W 851), Charly Le Jazz 21, Frémeaux & Associés FA 1340

2 Hot House
12" LP: Bird Box 01-22 LP 15, Phoenix LP 12
CD: New Sound Planet JUTB 3012, Sound Hills SSCD 8028, Philology Volume 9 (W 120), Philology Volume 21 (W 851), Charly Le Jazz 21, Frémeaux & Associés FA 1340


This is one of the two surviving sound films of Parker. Parker and Gillespie were guests on Earl Wilson's Stage Entrance, broadcast Sunday evenings on Channel 5 in New York City. Here they receive their Down Beat Reader's Poll awards and play a number after some faux-hip patter by Wilson. Leonard Feather, co-presenter, seems pained by Wilson's squareness, and Parker's icy look when Wilson asks "You boys got anything more to say?" is priceless.

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